Technical Architecture Contracts in Manchester

Technical Architecture
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 5 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £526 - £588
25th Percentile £566 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.08%
75th Percentile £716 - £666
90th Percentile £759 - £681
North West median daily rate £618 £685 £550
% change year-on-year -9.85% +24.55% -5.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Manchester

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in Manchester

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Manchester

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maximo
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Military
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Product Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Graylog
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Packer
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow